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AI, finance, and the intersection between the two.
I just discovered Perplexity Sonar Reasoning, an LLM with real-time web access. Why is nobody talking about this??
The Achilles heel of large language models is the fact that they don’t have real-time access to information. In order fo…
March 8, 2025
Here’s the no-bullshit guide to becoming a systematic trader and investor
After four years of developing an AI-powered algorithmic trading platform, seven years of trading and investing, and tal…
March 7, 2025
I sought out to create a "Deep Research" alternative for financial analysis. I can't stop using it!
When I first tried OpenAI's new "Deep Research" agent, I was very impressed. Unlike my traditional experience with large…
March 3, 2025
Introducing Deep Dive (DD), an alternative to Deep Research for Financial Analysis
Generating a DD Report on a stock with a single button click OpenAI released their AI Agent, Deep Research, three weeks…
March 1, 2025
I created OBJECTIVELY the most advanced algorithmic portfolio rebalancing tool in the world.
I think about this quote from Mark Zuckerberg’s every single day. “Ideas don’t come out fully formed. They only bec…
February 28, 2025
I thought AI could not possibly get any better. Then I met Claude 3.7 Sonnet
The big AI companies are on an absolute rampage this year. When DeepSeek released R1, I knew that represented a seismic…
February 24, 2025
Grok is Overrated. Do This To Transform ANY LLM to a Super-Intelligent Financial Analyst
People are far too impressed by the most basic shit. I saw some finance bro in Twitter rant about how Grok was the best…
February 23, 2025
Prompt chaining is dead. Long live prompt stuffing!
I thought I was hot shit when I thought about the idea of "prompt chaining". In my defense, it used to be a necessity ba…
February 20, 2025
I was laid off from my job where I made over $400,000/year. Here’s why I’m not upset.
I distinctly remember the day that I was laid off. It was January 27th. I know this because it was the same day that De…
February 17, 2025